Erin Bowman Quotes & Sayings

That word. I would have given anything to hear her say it over the summer, to have had the chance to say it back, but now, more than ever, I understand its true power. How it can make you ache as much as it can make you soar. How it shouldn't be said in return unless you mean it as deeply as the speaker. And that's not something you can ever know. Not truly. There's too much blind faith involved and that word is always, always a risk. You'll get hurt. Or the other person will. You'll stomp on someone's heart without meaning to. Loving is foolish and risky, like trying to raise a building in a bog. Emotions don't make strong foundations. — Erin Bowman

Maybe I felt something because I'm always looking for feelings. Without them, I don't know how to act. — Erin Bowman

Truth is, if someone doesn't see you before sex, they definitely don't see you any more after. — Erin Bowman

When I were first learning to shoot a rifle, Pa told me that nearly every battle people face is in their heads. — Erin Bowman

It is funny how the things we hate are the things we miss most when they are gone — Erin Bowman

Money's supposed to fix problems, not give you more, but I guess life ain't that straightforward. — Erin Bowman

No matter how obvious something may seem, there are two sides to every story. — Erin Bowman

Sure, sometimes you gotta let things go, but other times you can't till you set things right. And I know darn well it ain't worth arguing with a preacher. The only truths they believe are their own words. — Erin Bowman

[His eyes] gleaming like a demon done the devil's work — Erin Bowman

Maybe he kept the act going as long as possible, till a faked death were the only way to keep my memory of her pure and clean and something worth loving. — Erin Bowman

The human brain can only be stretched so far before it breaks. — Erin Bowman

People have all sorts of pasts, sometimes dark or dreary, but perhaps the actions they choose in the present are the ones that carry the most weight. — Erin Bowman

And I need to hear that there are situations where logic and reason don't apply, that sometimes an ugly action is a necessary one. — Erin Bowman

Life don't care 'bout sorry's," Will says. "Bad things happen, and you can't let 'em harden you. Whatever happened to yer pa, it ain't yer fault, Nate, and you gotta let it go. — Erin Bowman

Hell, I'll be safest pretending I'm a boy the rest of my life. The frontier ain't for the faint of heart, and it certainly ain't kind to women. Sometimes I think the whole world's 'gainst us. — Erin Bowman

A strong drink can numb the soul as good as any prayer — Erin Bowman

Jesse finishes paying for his drinks and turns. It takes only half a second, but his eyes burn a trail from my dress's neckline to its hem and back again. "The dress'll do," he says. — Erin Bowman

Everything's simpler without constraints. — Erin Bowman

She was suppose to be mine. I hers. We were suppose to be like the birds. — Erin Bowman

People don't gotta like the same stuff. If they did, life would be pretty boring. — Erin Bowman

For some reason, this is the moment I know I'm gonna be all right; that the hurt might never fade, and my heart might always long for a stubborn cowboy with squinty eyes, but I'll make do. Sure as the sun will rise. — Erin Bowman

He sips his drink and it leaves his handlebar mustache dripping like a cattle dog come outta a river. — Erin Bowman

We were suppose to be like the birds. — Erin Bowman

Sooner or later we're all gone, so no one bothers getting attached. — Erin Bowman

I'm trying to say that I think doing what you feel can't always be easy, but at least you're being true to yourself. — Erin Bowman

Second chances are not the same as forgiveness. — Erin Bowman

Gold makes monsters of men. — Erin Bowman

It shows damn near everything. I's been hiding my breasts for so long, I half forgot I had 'em. — Erin Bowman